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' @with tetes gatwt @fitta JOHN AUGSPURGER, OF TRENTON, OHIO.

' Letters Patent No. 63,828, dated April 16, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN PORTABLE FENCE.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY' OONCERN:

Be it known that I, JOHN AUGSPURGER, of Trenton, Butler county, Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Portable Fences; and I do hereby declare thefollowing to be a. full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification.

My invention relates to a light, portable fence, easily moved from place to place, and quickly ,set up and connected Where desirable without the labor of digging post-holes, While it forms a firm fence, and cannot be lifted or disconnected by swine to get under, nor pushed over by cattle, nor easily blown down by the wind, but

may quickly and easily be separated and removed by the proprietor when desirable.

Figure l represents a portion of two panels of my fence asset up, showing the mode of securingand connecting them.

Figure 2 is a horizontal section, showing a modification ofthe manner in which the separation ofthe panels` is prevented.

I construct my fence in panels as light as is consistent with proper strength, consisting of two posts, A. and B, of unequal lengths, connected by a suitable number of rails, (preferably ive,) with a brace or stay, either vertical or diagonal, about the mid-length of each panel. The post A at one end of each panel is only of sn'ficient length for the attachment of the rails, but the other, B, is longer, leaving a foot to support the panel above the ground of such length as may be necessary, one foot being thus furnished at each joint. The panels are connected by hooks, C C', and eyes or staples, D D', and eachpost has uponit a block or cleat, a b, attached to its proximate sides in such a manner that When the panels are bent into a zigzag form, as shown, the cleat a upon the post A, bearing the eyes or staples, engaging under the cleat b upon the post B, prevents the lifting ofthe panel to disconnect them until returned to a straight line. The fence resting on the ground in a Worm or zigzag shape, each panel serves as a brace for those adjacent, thus giving a rigidity and firmness to the fence only to be obtained in a straight fence of much heavier construction.

A. modication of the above device is shown in iig. 2, which represents a section through two adjacent posts. In this device a single block or cleat, E, upon one post is made by the bending of the fence to its zigzag form to engage in one of two oblique gains F G, cut at a corresponding height in the other post, and thus prevents the lifting apart of the panels until returned to a straight line. A block, H, maybe attached to the foot of the longer post, to serve as an anchor, by being placed below the surface of the ground, to give additional firmness to the fence.

I claim herein as new, and of my invention- 1. The construction of a light and portable fence, in lengths or panelswith one short and one long post, substantially as shown and described, to rest upon the surface of the ground in a Worm or zigzag shape, and to be connected and secured by means of the hooks C, staples or eyes D, and eleatsa b, or cleat E, and oblique ains F o eratinfr as shown and set forth.

g i n 2. In combination with the elements of the preceding clause, I claim the block H, serving as an anchor, as set forth. In testimony of which invention I hereunto set my hand.

JOHN AUGSPURGER.

Witnesses:

Gro. H. KNIGHT, JAMES II. LAYMAN. 

